HURRICANE IAN UPDATE: Thank you to everyone for the helping hands during our Rescue Mission! We thank all the volunteers, the media, and the community all coming together to make this a successful mission! Thank you to all of our hard working staff, who are essential to all of the daily happenings at the Ranch. We love you and we thank you for the kindness, love and generosity that everyone has shown this rescue. We still need linens, tarps, generators and gas cans.

Happy dogs arrive at Big Dog Ranch Rescue from China over 8,000 miles away and they are so excited to touch down! Purebred poodles, French and English bulldogs, golden retrievers, and Samoyeds are smelling the roses…and lapping up the sunshine… as they are greeted by over 40 smiling and loving volunteers and veterinary staff. Many already have homes and others available for adoption.

In mid-August of 2020, Big Dog Ranch Rescue received a heartbreaking call. Rescues in the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, St. John, Tortola, and Vieques, were facing hard decisions. COVID and a very unpredictable hurricane season were presenting new challenges to their small but mighty rescue facilities…

In mid-September of 2020 a small team from Big Dog Ranch Rescue traveled to Puerto Rico to meet with one of the rescues on the island, Santuario Canita. It is run by a dedicated woman named Carmen and a small team of about five who work tirelessly for the dogs…

In June 2020, Big Dog Ranch Rescue hit the road to visit underserved and underfunded shelters in Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas. This is what happened…

Preview our facility and watch us in action during Hurricane Harvey.

The slaughterhouses in China are operating in full force and tens of thousands of dogs are earmarked for death, enduring a horrible “life” of painful suffering, torture and cruelty as they await their fate.

They need us. We need you!

Meet Miracle. The dog who survived on rainwater, buried under rubble for weeks.